Everyone Can Take an Idea
The words I am uttering penetrate your senses, so that every hearer holds them, yet withholds them from no other. Not held, the words could not inform. Withheld, no other could share them. Though my talk is, admittedly, broken up into words and syllables, yet you do not take in this portion or that, as when picking at your food. All of you hear all of it, though each takes all individually. I have no worry that, by giving all to one, the others are deprived. I hope, instead, that everyone will consume everything; so that, denying no other ear or mind, you take all to yourselves, yet leave all to all others. But for individual failures of memory, everyone who came to hear what I say can take it all off, each on one's separate way.
Notes:
It is not like taking food, where we must leave some for others. Ideas may be taken and done with as we please.
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Saint Augustine: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)Triples
Jefferson and Augustine on Sharing Ideas
Everyone Can Take an Idea > Similarity > Thomas Jefferson on the Sharing of IdeasIdeas have the property of being infinitely distributive, a characteristic lacking in material things.
